Northeast Kansas Heritage Tour
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Northeast Kansas offers views
of rolling hills, woodlands, rivers, and creeks along with a number
of small- to medium-sized cities. You'll find a large variety
of sites to visit with topics such as dinosaurs, Native Americans,
the West, aviation, art, and science.
Towns are listed in alphabetical order, followed by information
on historical attractions. Use our button bar below to go to the
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Features include pre-historic exhibits, the days of the cattle drives,
and an 1885 pumper fire wagon. Visitors can ride a turn-of-the-century
Parker carousel, designated as a National Landmark.
Location: 412 S. Campbell
Hours: April through October: 10:00
a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday; November
through March: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
Telephone: 785-263-2681
Admission: $1.50
The Dwight D. Eisenhower president library features his early years,
military career, presidency, and life with Mamie. The museum also offers
a gallery with changing exhibits.
Location: SE Fourth Street
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. daily. Closed
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day
Telephone: 785-263-4751
Admission: $3.00 adults, $2.50 seniors
Features the breeding and racing of greyhounds as well as the history
of pari-mutuel betting.
Location: SE Fourth Street
Hours: April through October: 9:00 a.m. -
8:00 p.m. daily. November through March: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily
Telephone: 785-263-3000
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Exhibits on the history of Kansas sporting events and the state's greatest
athletes.
Location: 213 N. Broadway
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:40 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-263-7166
Admission: $3.00 adults, children 12 and
under free with adult
Old Abilene Town Museum
An 1887 railroad depot holds displays on the time of the cattle drives
and railroad development.
Location: 100 SE Sixth Street
Hours: June through August: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00
p.m. daily; April, May, September, October, November: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00
p.m. daily
Telephone: 785-263-4751
Admission: $1.50
Seeyle Patent Medicine Museum
The Seeyle Mansion and Museum dates from early patent medicine days.
The medicine company boasted a line of 84 different products.
Location: 1105 N. Buckeye
Hours: Tours at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Monday through Saturday, 2:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-263-1084
Admission: $5.00
Wabaunsee County Historical Museum
An old stone bank holds displays on county history including a general
store, doctor's office, blacksmith shop, and barber shop.
Location: 227 Missouri
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., 1:00 - 4:00
p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-765-2200
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
 Atchison
Atchison County Historical Society Museum
Housed in the former depot, exhibits focus on local history including
on Amelia Earhart's childhood home and the development of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Location: 200 S. 10th
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 913-367-6238
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Old Castle Museum
An 1858 three-story sandstone and limestone building houses a variety
of exhibits, features include an 1845 Seth Thomas weight clock, an 1895
bellows camera, and pioneer store equipment.
Location: 515 Fifth Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday
through Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Telephone: 785-594-6809
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Quayle Bible Collection Museum
Featuring tablets, bibles, and various religions texts from around
the world, including cuneiform tablets and a cone from 2000 B.C., an
Egyptian papyrus fragment from 2000 B.C., and a 14th century synagogue
roll in Hebrew.
Location: Eighth and Fremont, Collins Library,
Baker University
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Telephone: 785-594-6451
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Clay County Historical Museum
Originally the local hospital, the 1925 red brick building houses a
variety of exhibits on local history including an operating and obstretric
room and an 1896 Regina music box.
Location: 2121 Seventh Street
Hours: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday
Telephone: 785-632-3786
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
This beautiful stone building was an early mission for children of
the Kaw tribe. Located on the Santa Fe Trail, the surrounding town of
Council Grove was a favorite stopping place for travelers.
Location: 500 N. Mission Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday
Telephone: 620-767-5410
Admission: $3 adults, $2 seniors, $1 students,
KSHS members and children under five admitted free.
1st Division Museum
World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and Desert Storm exhibits highlight
the museum featuring the history of the Big Red One.
Location: Behind U.S. Cavalry Museum (see
listing below)
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-239-2743
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
The museum highlights the history of Kansas Territory's first capitol,
the site of the 1855 legislative session. Voted in during a fraudulent
election, the proslavery legislators and the laws they passed were soon
declared bogus.
Location: Via Huebner Road on Fort Riley
military reservation
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 1:00
- 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-784-5535
Admission: Suggest donation $2 adults, $1
children
Buffalo soldiers, dragoons, and mounted riflemen are featured in the
museum covering the history of the U.S. Cavalry. the Mexican War,
Civil War, San Juan Hill, and World War I are among the time periods
covered in the museum with numerous artifacts, paintings, and dioramas.
Location: Building 205
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, 12:00 - 4:30 p.m. Sunday; closed holidays
Telephone: 785-239-2737
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
The historical Pony Express Station, which ran from 1860 until 1861,
appears much as it did during the time it served travelers along the
Oregon-California Trail. The new visitor's center provides a full-size
mural depicting life at the station; interactive exhibits on communications
from the pony express, telegraph, to computers; and transportation from
the nineteenth century. The visitor's center also includes a gift shop
featuring items related to the Kansas history.
Location: 2889 23rd Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-337-2635
Admission: $3 adults, $2 seniors, $1 students,
KSHS members and children under five admitted free
An award winning museum offering a chance to discover stories about
the people who were native to northeast Kansas those who lived in present-day
northeast Kansas for a time.
Location: K-120 north from U.S.-36, turn
east on Mission Road
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday -
Saturday and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-442-3304
Admission: $3 adults, $2 seniors, $1 students,
KSHS members and children under five admitted free
Junction
City
Geary County Historical Society Museum
County history is covered with exhibits on Native Americans who lived
in the area, train depot, and early twentieth century clothing.
Location: 530 N. Sixth Street
Hours: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday
Telephone: 785-238-1666
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Interactive exhibits include a chain reaction, a grocery store, a saltwater
aquarium with a tunnel for crawling underneath, dress-up area, and a
recycling center.
Location: 4601 State Avenue
Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 913-287-8888
Admission: $3.00
Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum
Exhibits often feature Kansas medical history through the use of both
historical artifacts and archival materials. One of the five largest
collections of rare and new medical books.
Location: University of Kansas Medical Center,
Rainbow and 39th
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday
Telephone: 913-588-7244
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Moses Grinter came to Kansas long before it was a territory. He earned
his livelihood by trading with the Native Americans and by operating
a ferry where the military road crosed the Kansas River. Here in the
1850s he and his wife, Annie, a Delaware Indian, built a fine new house
that echoed those he had know in his native Kentucky. Tours of the house
museum are available.
Location: 1420 South 78th Street
Hours: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday
Telephone: 913-299-0373
Admission: $3 adults, $2 seniors, $1 students,
KSHS members and children under five admitted free
The Museum features a changing exhibit gallery and the permanent exhibit
Seeking the Good Life, tracing the history and development of the county
from the 1820s to modern times. The 1950s All-Electric House is located
on the property and whether you're a child of the 50s or just curious
about lifestyles from this nostalgic era, the house offers an eye-opening
look at the lifestyles and technologies of the times.
Location: 6305 Lackman Road
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday, 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 913-631-6709
Museum Admission: Free, donations appreciated
House admission: $2 for adults and $1 for
children 12 and under
Located along a mail stop on the Santa Fe School, the schoolhouse features
living history experiences for students and visitors. The stone school
was built in 1869 and is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. A Visitors Center houses an exhibit on one-room school education
and modern restroom facilities.
Location: 18745 S. Dillie Road, Edgerton
Hours: 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Telephone: 913-631-6709
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Originally built in 1864 by a Swiss immigrant, the building was taken
apart and rebuilt in the city park.
Location: 14907 West 87th Street Parkway,
Lenexa
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 913-492-0038
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
The farmstead was the first stop for stagecoaches traveling form Westport,
Missouri, to the Santa Fe Trail. The 23-acre site is now on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Location: 1100 Kansas City Road
Hours: February through April: 10:00 a.m.
- 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday; May through December: 10:00
a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 913-782-6972
Admission: $3.00 adults, $1.75 children over
5. Group rates available
The mission was established as a manual labor skills boarding school
for children of several Native American nations living in the area.
One of the four remaining buildings is among the oldest structures in
Kansas. The 1839 west building features exhibits on the history
of the mission, period furnishings, and a museum store. The north
building features teachers' rooms, a dining hall, and a mission classroom.
Location: 3403 West 53rd Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 913-262-0867
Admission: Suggest contribution - $2 adults,
$1 children
Science is the theme in exhibits on the electromagnetic spectrum, sound
waves, a computer fractal lab, and how composting works.
Location: 5705 Flint Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday (March
through August only), 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday,
12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 913-268-8130
Admission: $4.00 adults, $2.00 children 1-2
years
Wyandotte County Museum
Local history and prehistory is covered, including an exhibit on the
Hopewell Indians who lived in the area from 1 to 500 A.D.
Location: 631 N. 126th
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00 -
5:00 p.m. Sunday, closed the last two weeks of December and holidays.
Telephone: 913-721-1078
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Elizabeth Watkins Community Museum
The 1888 former bank building houses exhibits on the history of the
county. The beginnings of basketball are featured with Dr. James
Naismith and Dr. Phog Allen, the history of Haskell Indian Nations University,
and local photography spanning 175 years.
Location: 1047 Massachusetts
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday, 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-841-4109
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
A parasauralophus greets visitors at the museum featuring an extensive
collection of species featuring dinosaurs, mammoths, and a large panorama
of North American plants and stuffed animals from arctic to desert climates.
the musem also features a store with products based on the exhibits.
Location: Dyche Hall, University of Kansas
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-864-4245
Admission: $2.00
Eleven galleries representing much of the world's art history, both
Western and Asian. Works by Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, John Singer
Sargent, and Georgia O'Keeffe are among the highlights.
Location: University of Kansas
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday and until 9:00 p.m. Thursday, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday; closed
holidays
Telephone: 785-864-4710
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Wilcox Classical Museum
Replicas of famous sculptures are featured. An exhibit on marble
also is included.
Location: University of Kansas
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday, closed holidays
Telephone: 785-864-3170
Admission: Free
One of the finest collections of nineteenth century horse-drawn vehicles
highlights this musum covering the frontier army from 1817-1917 and
Fort Leavenworth 1827-Present. A carriage that carried Abraham
Lincoln during his visit to Leavenworth, Custer's horse sleigh, and
a 1917 Jenny biplane used to track Pancho Villa are among the many items
on exhibit.
Location: Reynolds and Gibbons streets
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, 12:00 - 4:0 p.m. Sunday; closed holidays
Telephone: 913-684-3191
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
A 1867 sixteen-room mansion houses the museum featuring county history.
Victorian clothing, a kitchen, and textiles are among the many exhibits.
Location: 1128 fifth Street
Hours: 1:00 - 4:40 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday
Telephone 913 682-7759
Admission: $2.00
The site where the Lecompton Constitution was drafted imposing a proslavery
government on the antislavery majority in Kansas Territory. The
document's failure helped push the South toward withdrawing from the
Union. The site features first- and second-floor exhibits depicting
the convention at which the document was drafted and later history of
the building. A museum store also is included.
Location: 319 Elmore
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Wedneday through
Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-887-6520
Admission: $2 adults, $1 seniors and students,
KSHS members and children under five admitted free
Lyndon
Osage County Historical Museum & Research Center
History of Osage County communities is highlighted with exhibits of
quilts, books, and photographs. Large county genealogy collection.
Location: 631 Topeka Avenue
Hours: 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday
Telephone: 785-828-3477
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
The home of Isaac Goodnow, who found the college that became Kansas
State University, and his wife Ellen features exhibits from the late
nineteenth century.
Location: 2301 Claflin Road
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through
Friday, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Telephone: 785-565-6490
Admission: Suggestion contribution - $2 adults,
$1 children
Riley County Historical Museum
Exhibits on local and county history feature items used in daily life
during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Highlights include
early clothes-washing equipment and agriculture implements.
Location: 2309 Claflin Road
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through
Friday, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Telephone: 785-537-2210
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Marysville
Courthouse Museum
Housed in the 1891 brick courthouse, the museum features the judges
bench and courtroom as it appeared in 1898, a primitive kitchen, and
an exhibit on local ghost towns.
Location: 1209 Broadway
Hours: Summer: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.,
1:30 - 4:30 p.m. daily; winter: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. daily
Telephone: 785-562-5012
Admission: $1.00
Pony Express Barn Museum
Contained in an original pony express barn and station, the museum
also features Native American artifacts and early farm equipment as
well as other displays.
Location: 106 S. Eighth Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through
Saturday; Sunday afternoons
Telephone: 785-562-9874
Admission: $2.00 adults, $ .50 children
No museums currenetly are listed for Oskaloosa.
No museums currenetly are listed for Osage City.
Paola
Exhibits on early Miami County and Paola businesses, schools, parks,
racetracks, hotels, opera houses, etc. Three 19th century buildings.
Location: 12 East Peoria
Hours: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday; 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday
Telephone: 913-294-4940
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Nemaha County Museum
Housed in a two-story brick building, the museum features early twentieth
century furnishings, exhibits on the jail, a doctor's office, and post
office.
Location: Sixth Street
Hours: 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Telephone: 785-336-6366
Admission: $1.00
Military aircraft featuring a Jenny biplane, T-28 Trojan, F-7F Blue
Angel, MiG 17, Huey helicopter, C-47, EC 121 Connie, and restoration
work on other aircraft.
Location: Hangar 602, Forbes Field
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, 10:00 - 4:30 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-862-3303
Admission: $5.00
More than 22,000 square feet of exhibits in the Main and Special Galleries
and tell the story of Kansas from prehistoric times to the recent past.
Hightlights include an 1880 locomotive, full-size reproductions of a
Southern Cheyenne tipi and a Wichita grasslodge, and exhibits on Bleeding
Kansas and the Civil War. The museum store offers collectible items
and gifts relating to Kansas history.
Location: 6425 SW Sixth Avenue
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday,
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-272-8681
Admission:$5 adults, $4 seniors, $3 students,
$1 discount for Kansas residents, KSHS members and children under five
admitted free, group rates available with prior notice
More admission information
Learn the fascinating story of John Steuart Curry's murals, see the
spectacular chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives,
gaze upward to view the marble and the glass panels of the dramatic
Capitol dome.
Location: Exit 362B on I-70, follow the
signs
10th and Jackson
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday
Historic Tours: During legislative session
- second week in January through May, Monday - Friday
9:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
June through the second week in January, Monday - Friday
9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
Dome Tours: Find updated information
Telephone: 785-296-3966
Admission:Free
Mulvane Art Museum
Featuring contemporary mountain and plains area art with regionalism,
American modernism, and Kansas artists.
Location: 1700 Jewell, Washburn University
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through
Friday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Telephone: 785-295-6324
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Decorative arts museum housed in an 1895 building to display 1893 Chicago
World's Fair paintings.
Location: 521 Lincoln
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Saturday,
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 785-456-2029
Admission: $3.00
No museums are currently listed for Waterville.
Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to confirm hours, admission,
and holiday schedules. To request that your museum be added to this
listing, contact our webmaster.
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